Modal x Pydantic London: dev tools for you and your agents
An evening of lightning talks in London with Modal: Samuel Colvin on building Logfire for people and agents, Elias Freider on the SDK behind Modal. Food and drinks after.
Overview
- In-person event
- London, UK
- Free
Speakers
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Samuel Colvin Founder & CEO · Pydantic Creator of Pydantic, the most widely used data validation library for Python. Building developer tools for the Python and AI ecosystem. -
Elias Freider Founding Engineer · Modal Founding engineer at Modal, the serverless platform teams run AI and data workloads on.
About this event
Agents changed what developers need from their tools. Modal and Pydantic are both building for that shift: Modal on the AI cloud infrastructure, Pydantic on agent observability and evals. The teams behind both are coming to talk about what actually changes.
The talks
Samuel Colvin, founder at Pydantic, on Pydantic Logfire, which wraps OpenTelemetry in a thin layer so instrumenting code takes little setup. Samuel digs into how the SDK was designed for both human and agent audiences, the choices that keep it lightweight, and how the same foundation scales from agent observability to application-wide monitoring.
Elias Freider, founding engineer at Modal, on how Modal builds a Python SDK that works for developers and agents, from deploying functions to spinning up sandboxes. Elias walks through the internals, the pitfalls the team hit along the way, and how they solved them.
Schedule
- 6:30pm Welcome and networking
- 6:45pm Lightning talks and Q&A
- 7:45pm Food, drinks and mingling
Registration is on Luma and the hosts approve each request, so ask early if you want a spot.
What you'll learn
- What changes in an SDK when half its users are agents
- How Logfire is designed to be read by a person and queried by a model
- The infrastructure decisions Modal makes so remote execution feels local
Save your spot
Registration is handled on luma.com, where the host confirms your place and shares the address.
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